Re: Bug#1135097: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> writes:
> On 02/05/26 04:20, Charles Plessy wrote:

>> SIL OFL 1.1             309

> Hi, does license-count distinguish between plain OFL (SPDX:
> OFL-1.1-no-RFN) and OFL with Reserved Font Name (SPDX: OFL-1.1-RFN)? Or
> does this mean "OFL 1.1 with or without RFN" (SPDX: OFL-1.1)?

It does not; this is probably a bug in the script. The script uses very
simple regexes and has a real problem with licenses that have variations,
usually by merging them all together into one license that is then
overcounted.

The rules for SIL OFL licenses are just:

    [qr,SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1\.1,        => 'SIL OFL 1.1'],
    [qr,SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1\.0,        => 'SIL OFL 1.0'],

which I suspect is combining OFL-1.1-no-RFN and OFL-1.1-RFN and thus
overcounting the number of packages that could use a common license.

The Creative Commons licenses may have the same problem still, since I
know they also tend to have variations, although I did try to limit
CC0-1.0 to just the universal version when detecting it based on the
license text rather than a copyright-format file.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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